NEWS IN BRIEF.
Among men, 51 per cent, are stronger in the right arm than in the left. In thirty-three cases the left arm is the stronger; in the rest the two arms are equal. It is good to insist on the daily use of some hard food, especially with children, to strengthen the jaw muscles and help the teeth develop as well as keep them clean. Darwin’s ideas of evolution as interpreted by German minds were responsible for the war, according to the Rev. Dr. John A. Eaton, of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, of New York. The American fruit food economy hint that vegetable marrows grown with radio-active ore tasted like pineapple has been tested by a British nurseryman, who failed to discover the pineapple flavour. Women and children for the second year are now busy gathering the harvests of Ihe French fields and orchards. Even in the fishing villages they “man” the boats and reap the harvest of the deep. An ancient harvest custom still prevails in the French villages, where'sweetened bread, made from the Hour of the first wheat cut, is distributed in the churches at high mass yn Sundays. In 188 G the Ist Battalion Gloucester Regiment recovered from a pawnbroker at York four flags, whi«h it had borne from 1795 to 1810 through the Egyptian and Peninsular campaigns. A great many landlords at Whitby (England) have reduced the rents of their houses by 5(1 per cent., and altogether (he great distress of the lodginghouse-keepers has been considerably alleviated. The United Stales is (lie third largest naval Power in the world. Her principal warships are: —First - class battleships, four; armoured cruisers, ten; Ist, 2nd, and 3rd class cruisers, twenty-five. Although President Wilson conducts the foreign policy of (he. Republic and negotiates treaties with foreign Powers, the declaration of war rests with Congress, the Legislative body of the U.S.A. All girls in Bavaria Slate schools are to be warned in special lectures to despise and avoid" all eccentricities of fashion, particularly French fashion, and to observe “pure German simplicity” in (heir mode of attire. The, latest available figures give the total wealth of the United States as £37,540,000,900. The wealth of Great Britain and Ireland at (lie same time was £17,000,000,000; of the total British possessions, £26,000,000,000; Germany’s total wealth stood at a figure of £16,000,000,000. The officers and men of the American army are among the bestpaid in the world. A major-general receives £1,700 a year, a colonel £BOO, a captain £SOO, and a secondlieutenant £350. In (lie non-com-missioned ranks, a sergeant is paid at the rate of 4s a day, whilst a private receives about £1 a week. Ten million pounds sterling—a sum which would maintain 4,000 families in reasonable conn fort for ever, and much greater than the entire expenditure on.many of mu smaller wars —such is the estimated cost of a single hour’s fight between Ihe British and German fleets engaged at anything like their full strength. For the first time for centuries the famous black eagles of the Swabian Alps, whore the castle of tile ilohenzollerns stands on a wild height, have abandoned their eerie, the “Schwartz adlers horst.” According to legend, these eagles protected the destinies of the Ilohenzollerns, and their departure, recorded without comment in the German newspapers, is looked upon as an evil omen by folk throughout the country.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1745, 7 August 1917, Page 4
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561NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1745, 7 August 1917, Page 4
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